Tobacco-hanger.



TOBACCO HANGER. nruouxon' FILED SEPT.8.1903

witnesses UNITED STATES JOSEPH HOWARD SYLVESTER AND PETER IVEGKBECKER,OF QUINCY Patented March 28, 1905.

FLORIDA.

TOBACCO-HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 785,777, dated March28, 1905.

Application filed September 8, 1903. Serial No. 172,265.

To a, whom. it 7771,01/ concern:

Be it known that we, JOSEPH HOWARD SYL- VESTER and PETER VVEOKBECKER,citizens of the United States, residing at Quincy, in the county ofGadsden and State of Florida, have invented new and useful Improvementsin Tobacco-Hangers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates particularly to tobacco-hangers used for hangingleaf-tobacco.

In curing Sumatra or other wrapper tobacco it is common to take theleaves off the stalk and hang them upon laths, a number of leaves beingstrung along each lath by means of a needle and cord, the latter beingattached to the end of the lath. hen this is done, the cords have to berenewed every season.

The object of our invention is to produce a hanger which will not haveto be removed and to which the leaves can be quickly applied or removed.

A further object of our invention is to produce a combined lath andhanger formed of twisted wire.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is an end view and Fig. 2 is aside view of one form of hanger applied to a wooden lath, and Fig. 3 isa plan view of the same hanger removed from the lath. Fig. 4 is aperspective view of a combined lath and hanger formed of twisted wireand in which the hanger itself is practically identical with the hangerapplied to a wooden lath.

Referring particularly to Figs. 1, 2, and 3 of the drawings, a woodenlath is indicated at 6, to which the hangers are applied. Each lath willcontain about twenty hangers, and each hanger will hold about twoleaves. A hanger consists of a clip 7, consisting of a strip of metalextending under the lath and having arms projecting around and above thesame. To this clip under the lath is attached a hanger formed of bentand twisted wire, preferably in one piece, and comprising a verticalstem 8, bowed horizontal arms 9, extending laterally. therefrom, and apin 10, projecting between the arms. When the hanger is made of onepiece of wire, the point of the pin is formed at one end thereof, andthe other end is conveniently wound around the vertical portion 8 tostrengthen the same.

In the form shown in Fig. 4, the lath is formed of twisted wire, asindicated at 6*, and has offsets or shoulders 6 near the ends thereof toprevent endwise movement of the laths when they are placed in thedrying-frames. Instead of using the clips, as with a wooden lath, thestems of the hangers are woven into or through the twists of the wirelath, as indicated in Fig. 4, and are thus fixed thereto, forming acombined lath and hanger which is very light, cheap, serviceable, anddurable. The attachment of the hangers in the twists of the wire lathpreserves their relative distance and position, which is preferably thatshown, half the hangers being pointed one way and half the other, towardthe middle.

In use the leaves after being removed from the stalk are strung upon thepins, two to each hanger, between the arms thereof, which hold theleaves in place and prevent them coming off accidentally. The positionof the hangers, half directed each way toward the middle, is convenientin removing the tobacco after it is cured. The hands of the gatherer canthen be placed at opposite ends of the lath and brought together towardthe middle, which will strip the leaves from the pins and sweep the sameto a bundle at the middle.

What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A lath comprising a twisted wire, in combination with wire hangerswoven into the twists.

2. Thecombination with atwisted-wire lath, of wire hangers securedthereto and having pins projecting horizontally and lengthwise of thelath.

3. The combination with a wire lath having depending shoulders near theends thereof, of hangers depending from the lath and having pinsprojecting lengthwise thereof.

l. The combination with a lath, of a series of hangers dependingtherefrom, each hanger having a pin projectinghorizontally, the pins ofthe hangers on each side of the middle part of the lath being oppositelypresented toward each other.

names to this specification in the presence of two subscrlblngwltnesses.

JOSEPH HOWARD SYLVESTER. PETER WECKBECKER.

Witnesses:

R. J. LOVE, FRED FOSTER.

